Fort Kearny was a historic outpost of the United States Army founded in 1848 in the western U.S. during the middle and late 19th century. The fort was...
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Fort Phil Kearny was an outpost of the United States Army that existed in the late 1860s in present-day northeastern Wyoming along the Bozeman Trail. Construction...
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Fort Kearny may refer to: Fort Kearny, a historic fort in Nebraska Fort Phil Kearny, a historic fort in Wyoming Fort Kearny (Washington, D.C.), a historic...
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Arapaho tribes and a detachment of the United States Army, based at Fort Phil Kearny, Wyoming. The U.S. military mission was intended to protect travelers...
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Stephen Watts Kearny (sometimes spelled Kearney) (/ˈkɑːrni/ KAR-nee) (August 30, 1794 – October 31, 1848) was one of the foremost antebellum frontier officers...
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California Kearny, Arizona Kearny, New Jersey Kearny County, Kansas Fort Kearny, in Nebraska Fort Kearny (Washington, D.C.), an American Civil War fort Fort Phil...
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Philip Kearny Jr. (/ˈkɑːrni/; June 1, 1815 – September 1, 1862) was a United States Army officer, notable for his leadership in the Mexican–American War...
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Der Ruf (newspaper) (section Fort Kearny)
Der Ruf or The Call was a German language newspaper published in Fort Kearny in Narragansett, Rhode Island during World War II by captured prisoners of...
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Red Cloud's War (section Council at Fort Laramie)
virtual siege by the Indians at Fort Phil Kearny. The agreement was not ratified. The United States, as signer of the 1851 Fort Laramie treaty, could only...
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Territory, the routes converged along the lower Platte River Valley near Fort Kearny, Nebraska Territory. They led to fertile farmlands west of the Rocky...
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Kearney County, Nebraska (redirect from Kearny County, Nebraska)
was formed in 1860. It was named for Fort Kearny, which in turn was named for Brigade General Stephen W. Kearny. Kearney County is part of the Kearney...
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Fort Kearny was a fort constructed during the American Civil War as part of the defenses of Washington, D.C. Located near Tenleytown, in the District of...
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Bibb Fort Bowyer Fort Carney Fort Claiborne Fort Condé, open to the public Fort Crawford Fort Dale Fort Decatur Fort Easley Fort Gaines Fort Glass Fort Hampton...
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road connecting Fort Leavenworth and Fort Laramie. The road, which extended nearly 370 miles (600 km) from the Second Fort Kearny to Fort Laramie, was utilized...
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Fort Robinson is a former U.S. Army fort and now a major feature of Fort Robinson State Park, a 22,000-acre (8,900 ha) public recreation and historic preservation...
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transportation route. The Platte flows in a large arc, east-southeast to near Fort Kearny and then east-northeast, across Nebraska south of Grand Island and on...
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built a trading post, dubbed Fort Carlos IV (Fort Charles), near present-day Homer. In 1819, the United States established Fort Atkinson as the first U.S...
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Fort Kearny was a coastal defense fort in the Saunderstown area of Narragansett, Rhode Island from 1901 to 1943. It was a prisoner-of-war camp for German...
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an engagement which occurred on August 2, 1867, in the vicinity of Fort Phil Kearny during Red Cloud's War. A party of twenty-six U.S. Army soldiers and...
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build a road to Montana and garrisoned Fort Reno for nearly a year. Companies A through G reassembled at Fort Kearny in August 1866 and mustered out on October...
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railroad, elimination of the gap in the telegraph service between Fort Kearny in Nebraska and Fort Churchill in Nevada was planned to be divided between teams...
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Fossil Beds Arbor Lodge Bowring Ranch Buffalo Bill Ranch Fort Atkinson Fort Hartsuff Fort Kearny Rock Creek Station State Recreation Areas Alexandria Arnold...
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(1969). The Great Platte River Road: The Covered Wagon Mainline Via Fort Kearny to Fort Laramie. Nebraska State Historical Society. p. 455. "The Twin Cities:...
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M1859 McClellan saddle of the Civil War period, displaying its rawhide seat covering. Fort Kearny State Park and Museum, Nebraska...
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Fort Kearny (469 miles (755 km) west) – This fort, named after Stephen Watts Kearny, was established in June 1848. Another fort named after Kearny was...
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the second largest hydraulically filled earthen dam in the world (behind Fort Peck Dam) on the time of its completion. The dam was named for George P....
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Nebraska City Cutoff of the Oregon Trail west to Fort Kearny. As the shortest distance between Fort Kearny and the Missouri River, this plowed furrow extended...
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constructed Forts Reno, Phil Kearny, and C. F. Smith to defend the trail. The Sioux tribe "succeeded by closing the road by a massacre near Fort Kearny" in 1866...
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Marysville, Kansas, where it turned northwest following Little Blue River to Fort Kearny in Nebraska. Through Nebraska, it followed the Great Platte River Road...
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Spotted Tail (section Treaty of Fort Laramie)
Nebraska roaming the countries east of Fort Kearny, the Cheyenne were roaming the countries west of Fort Kearny and the Arapaho those farther west and...
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